A regular trip to Walmart turned into something very different for Kenny Brister when he saw this tornado spinning in the ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

While all of the organic molecules found in the Bennu samples have been identified before in meteorites, Glavin said the ones from Bennu are valid — “real extraterrestrial organic material ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet. The ...

By comparison, the largest meteorite found in Estonia with the assistance of geologists and preserved in a museum weighs 621.5 grams. This substantial fragment resembles iron reduced from local bog ...

The Takapō meteorite spent much of 2024 being pored over by geologists at the University of Otago. But the question of rightful ownership remains open because it was found on public land.

NEW YORK — A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple’s walkway. When Laura Kelly and her partner returned ...

The body of Alexis Schuler was found in Devontae Gray’s home in Capitol Heights, Md., say police Metropolitan Police Department; Prince George's County Police Department A Maryland man was ...

Using a vacuum and magnet — which can attract the metals found in meteorites — they scraped together a 95-gram (3-ounce) sample. When a quick online search turned up the University of Alberta ...